我国的高等教育 ,包括成人高等教育正经历着大的变革。这次变革首先从扩大招生开始 ,进而是教学、科研、人事管理体制的改革。但改革的中坚问题是课程设置 ,培养什么样的人才 ,关键由这一环节决定。改革成人高教的课程设置 ,几乎不会有什么异议 ,各教学单位已在教学实践中开始课程改革的探索。现在的问题是 ,总结以往的经验教训 ,使人们对成人高教的课程设置理念更为明晰化、科学化 ,促进课程设置改革更为自然地健康发展。本期发表丁永才和段士杰两位同志的文章 ,主要是引起成人高教界同行对课程设置改革的注意 ,并希望引起讨论 China’s higher education, including adult higher education, is undergoing major changes. The first change from the expansion of enrollment began, and then teaching, research, personnel management system reform. However, the key issue of reform lies in the curriculum and the training of talents. The key issue is decided by this link. Almost no objection to the reform of the curriculum of adult higher education, teaching units have begun to explore curriculum reform in teaching practice. The problem now is to summarize past experiences and lessons so as to make the concepts of adult higher education more clear and scientific and to promote a more natural and healthy development of curriculum reform. This issue of two articles, by Ding Yongcai and Duan Shijie, mainly draws the attention of adult higher education counterparts to the curriculum reform and hopes to arouse discussion